Dario Bonazza 2 wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > First of all, Simone is a male name in Italy. Female version is Simona. > > This said, you have to expect 15 to 30 days to deliver, including about 15 > days at the customs, since they'll ask him (by very snail mail!) to send > documents proofing nature and value of shipped item: invoice, order form, > email, etc. > Then Simone will have to pay 20% VAT, 4% customs duties and a few more extra > bucks for final delivery. > That's bad, but this is the q�eway things are in Italy, in spite of European > Community and the Euro. Customs laws and duties are the same they were > decades ago. > > ...
Jim, I had deliveries from the USA from both business and privates. I believe the customs will charge 10% as Duty in US imports and 20% VAT. I never had to send up documents to them as long as value and nature of the delivery was declared on the box. Delivery time was around 1 week or so. He won't escape the taxes unless you declared the item as a gift and the value is less then 100 Euro/$ or so. The taxes will be paid to the postman delivering the item who, BTW, has no responsibility for the actual acquisition of the item by the recipient, he can leave it on the doormat or near the mailbox, if there's nobody home and he feels like it. Ciao, Flavio - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
